Medicines : their uses and mode of administration including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements, by David Meredith Reese.

  • Neligan, J. Moore (John Moore), 1815-1863.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Medicines : their uses and mode of administration including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements, by David Meredith Reese. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mericB, D. E. (An article of the Materia Medica, D.— Prepared in the same way as extract of liquorice, E.) Dose, gr. xx. to gr. xL—Infusum Kramerice, L. (Rhatany, §i.; boiling distilled water, Oi.; macerate for 4 hours in a vessel lightly covered, and strain.) Dose, f§i. to f^ij. This infusion becomes quite turbid on cooling, and would be better made with cold water by the process of per- colation. Incomp.—All substances incompatible with tannin. Lythrum salicaria, herba, D. Purple Loosetrife.—An indi- genous plant, belonging to the natural family Lythracece, and to the Linnsean class and order Dodecandria Monogynia. The whole of this herb possesses mildly astringent properties; it was formerly much employed in chronic diarrhoea and dysentery, but at present it has fallen completely into disuse. . MoNEsiA.—Under this name, a few years since, an astringent extract was imported into France from South America; it was said to have been obtained from the bark of a tree, a native of Brazil, but the name of which is not knoWn. The extract was brought over in large cakes, which were purified by dissolving in w^ater, filtering, and evaporating; the purified extract is in small fragments resembling kino in appearance, but it haV not the pecu- liar ruby lustre of that substance ; the taste is at first sweetish, th^n astringent, and the odour feebly aromatic; it dissolves readily in water, affording a dull brown, somewhat opaque soffjin. Ac- cording to the analysis of MM. Derosne and Henry, it. consists of tannin, red colouring matter, glycirrhizine, and a pfe'culi|Lr acrid principle, which they have named Monesine. Like numerous other medicines when first introduced, Monesia was extravagantly lauded as a remedy possessing powerfully as- tringent properties; experience has, however, proved that it is much inferior to either kino or catechu, and it probably may take an intermediate station between those substances and extract of rhatany. It has been used in all cases where astringents are ad missible, both externally and internally, but the disease in which it appears to have been most serviceable is chronic diarrhoea. D. & M. OF Adm.—In substance, gr. v. to gr. xv.—Tinctura Mo- nesicB, Donovan. (Extract of monesia, §i.; proof spirit, fgixss.; wa- ter, f§ij. ; mix, and when the fasces have subsided, pour oflf the tinc- ture.) Dose, fsi. to fsij.—Mistura Monesice. (Extract of monesia, 3ij.; water, f^viiss.; compound tincture of cardamoms, f^ss.; mix.) Dose, f§ss. to f§ij. two or three times a day. Incomp.—Mineral acids ; salts of iron, zinc, and lead ; opium ; and sulphate of quina. Plumbi acetas, D. L. E. Acetate of Lead; Sugar of Lead. P. P.—Usually met with in irregular white masses of acicular crystals, having an acetous odour, and a sweetish, astringent taste ; the crystals are quadrangular prisms with dihedral summits.